In criminology, a predator is used to describe a criminal, most commonly in the phrases sexual predator and/or child predator. The term superpredator has also been used to refer to a theorized individual, from an urban ghetto, who has developed an aversion to modern society. The term is also in common use in the media because to many newspapers and televised news programmes, describing someone convicted of (in example) Rape, they can change a simple comment such as 'The offender raped the woman' into 'The man is a predator who rapes his victims' Though the basic wording and the comments are the same, it is made to make the offender in this case look more 'evil'. Template:Criminologies Criminology is the scientific study of crime as an individual and social phenomenon. ... The term sexual predator is used pejoratively about a person who is seen as obtaining or trying to obtain sexual intercourse in a metaphorically predatory manner. ... The word theory has a number of distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on their methodologies and the context of discussion. ... The city of San Francisco, an example of an urban area. ... A ghetto is an area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background are united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. ... Young people interacting within an ethnically diverse society. ...